So looks like I got tagged with your reply to translate, the bot reply asking for payment and then the bot reply with the translated meme. I don’t think it detracts from the content. It’s just another thread of replies. What all types of content will this translate? Quoting the original is probably a good idea at a minimum to give credit. I’d suggest also automatically having it zap some split of the fee to the original author as well.
Oh zap split is interesting
The payment right now is for the work of actually translating the content because the AI models, APIs and services that I’m using cost money
But any zaps posted on the translated content itself could definitely be split with the originator
I don’t know how to do that yet though
Maybe our boy @NotBiebs knows a good way to do that
There’s instructions how to do it in nip-57. It kinda sucks though. Not all clients support it and the UX is terrible unless the person zapping is using NWC.
Couldn’t I just take the lightning address from the creator’s npub (Kind 0 metadata) and send sats using Alby API if the translated event has received a zap?
I would need to change my bot’s lightning wallet to Alby at that point
But I don’t know how to pay a lightning address yet
Don’t I ping a webhook and get a bolt11 address or something?
And what will you do if a payment fails? There’s a many different ways a lightning payment can fail. Personally I wouldn’t go down this rabbit hole.
I’d just follow the spec. Then at least some of the zaps will be split and you don’t have to write much code.
What do you think about looping in the translation requestor on the split so they’re incentivized to repost/share for more engagement?
I might be overthinking it
I’d be reluctant as it might incentive spamming people’s replies with translation requests but I guess they’d have to pay to actually have the translation done so maybe the potential spam would be self-limiting in that way.
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